The real reason why Mirabilis ICQ become unpopular.
On the height of their popularity, they started naming their products appending either "devil" and "demon" to their products.
Of course, most people who are conservatives back then like parents, aunts, 99% of the their users, basically other than "you" the power users didn't like the new naming.
So they move-on to Yahoo Messenger and never looked back.
Moral: Don't name your popular product like how Mirabilis ICQ does it back in the late 90s.
On the height of their popularity, they started naming their products appending either "devil" and "demon" to their products.
Of course, most people who are conservatives back then like parents, aunts, 99% of the their users, basically other than "you" the power users didn't like the new naming.
So they move-on to Yahoo Messenger and never looked back.
Moral: Don't name your popular product like how Mirabilis ICQ does it back in the late 90s.